DirtyWaterHotDog
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DirtyWaterHotDog
in an abusive relationship with you lot
5d ago
Left-leaning westerners are still capitalists. They oppose the 'turn the level up to 11' form of hyper-capitalism practiced in America (globally) and China (internally). At least the CCP periodically disappears prominent entrepreneurs, so they know its place. That's regulation. The US on the other hand, is headed towards a tyranny of an ugly coalition of mega-corps and boomer NIMBYs.
doesn't involve replacing big macs with eating grass to survive
The hyperbole is unproductive. Makes your argument seem unserious. Yes, we need to replace beef = cows feasting on alfalfa. Practically all other forms of meat are valid replacements. (Note, unlike Americans, other nationals aren't as entitled about what type of meat they're eating). Lab grown meat is valid. Changing your meal's composition (eat beef 2/7 days, instead of 7/7) & eating fewer meals (Ozempic) is valid. People aren't reproducing, so fewer people is also a valid option.
Besides, AI does very little to help alleviate concerns or accelerate research in these domains.
AI capable enough to simulate the economy and coordinate economic decision-making
This has been possible to do for a very long time.
People do not coordinate because they have different incentives, goals and emotional hangups. No amount of AI is going to convince a NIMBY to allow new housing or Texan to use public transportation.
DirtyWaterHotDog
in an abusive relationship with you lot
5d ago
It's very much insider criticism.
I work in AI, my compensation depends on it. Most folks on here (me included) are rat adjacent in some way. On paper, I'm sympathetic to Anthropic's motivation. I have friends who work at Anthropic & OpenAI, and they're normal people.
Talking to my peers in the field is why I am jaded. They express bewilderment at the opposition to AI. These are smart people. It means they're either willfully ignorant or lying. In either scenario, it scares me that the harbingers of the next era of humanity understand so little of what makes us human.
People want better food, clothing and shelter. They want better healthcare. They want safety, love, belonging and a feeling of self-esteem. Lastly, they want to self-actualize.
AI helps with none of the physiological needs. It actively makes job security worse and channels our communications through a digital middle-man, worsening shared love and belonging. It renders your skills moot by skill-mogging you, decimating your self-esteem. And lastly, its nature questions the reason for our very existence, throwing self-actualization into a tizzy.
AI automates humans. AI makes 'creative' content for free. AI personalizes ads perfectly. Other than those in the capital class, who wants this. What member of proletariat 'benefits' from AI ?
There is the marketing issue as well
That's underselling it. If you wrote super-villians that behave like Altman, Dario, Zuck and Elon, then the editor would can your script for being too on the nose.
- Altman - Fired from previous job for shady business. Fired from current job for shady business. Still CEO.
- Dario - Runs a literal doomsday cult of autists
- Zuck - Lizard man supreme
- Elon - Eugenicist Autistic Iron-man
archetype that one associates with immaturity, frivolity, narcissism, and callous disregard for other people and for human value in gener
Is it an archetype ? or is it reality.
DirtyWaterHotDog
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10d ago
It's fascinating. I'd love to observe a day in the life of such a person.
DirtyWaterHotDog
in an abusive relationship with you lot
10d ago
I struggle to see the Israeli angle. Looks like a gleeful twitter reaction to an ongoing migrant crisis than a Israel led Muslim invasion.
Israel did not force Pedro to grant amnesty to 500k immigrants. A perceived openness to illegal migrants leads to more illegal migrants. It's not rocket science. Biden's weak stance on border control prompted the migrant crisis in the US, and Trump's stance led to freeze. In either case, the mechanism of entry and the law did not change. It's perceived incentives......
(I wrote this comment before seeing who wrote the post. I should know better)
DirtyWaterHotDog
in an abusive relationship with you lot
1mo ago
Question, are you using Opus 4.8 Max ?
People's experience with claude is heavily dependent on which model you use.
This is all great for experienced faculty: at least in theoretical disciplines they can already greatly speed-up the research process without spending more or time on pesky grad students with the bonus that Claude doesn't mind if you're mean to it. For younger faculty, postdocs, and graduates students not so much.
100%. I see this exact pattern in coding as well. Senior engineers are empowered, junior engineers create more slop and headaches.
and slowly but probably surely, the pyramid scheme of Academia will collapse.
Pyramid schemes, by definition are immune to touching grass. They are fraudulent from day 1. It's like saying "now that we found a fully intact fossil of a dinosaur, support for creationism will collapse". If the pyramid scheme of Academia was to collapse, it would have happened by now.
In both scenarios, academia has basically signed its own death wish. For the reward of extremely high-productivity for very AI-savvy professors over the next few years, the system that brought us so many world-altering discoveries will basically be dismantled.
Every layer of abstraction takes you away from the raw experience of the science itself. It's like playing football by mashing buttons in Fifa.
I worry about a 'medium is the message' style collapse of science. Scientists will only investigate topics that feel amenable to ai-agents. In such a world, computation gets reduced to combinatorics. I hate it. In a real numbers shaped world, AI would never intent complex numbers. In a classical physics world, AI would never suggest a relativistic model. These are not combinatoric outcomes. They're ...... 'romantic'. Ai-agents are another step in what's a century long erosion of romance from science. (statistics -> RCTs -> computers -> internet -> ai).
Is it doxxing if Franco publicly replied to him on twitter ? Sounds like the kid has realized that anti-semitism is very cool in ivy-league colleges right now and doubling down will be rewarded.
experiences with Jews were not “pleasant,” after a NYC startup he had applied to reached out
I can't imagine that a 19 yr old kid from a Virginia exurb has had many 'experiences with Jews'. He's spent 1 year at Cornell (admittedly very Jewish) after transferring from Virginia tech. When would he have worked for Jews before to have formed such a strong opinion ? Sounds like programming more than genuine experiences.
Cynically, the kid is from Virginia and studies labor relations at Cornell. That screams 'I want to be a future politician', and antisemitism is table stakes for 19 year old college populists.
In my experience, it is quite difficult to tell liberal college-aged Jews apart from their white counter parts. And the Jews at liberal schools are usually the anti-Israel kind.
Quoting myself from 2 months ago
Conventional politics of the future is antisemitic. There is bipartisan agreement on it among the youth.
DirtyWaterHotDog
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1mo ago
Real Football is more like fighting than other sports.
For most of the game, you are whittling down your opponent. The inevitable hook (goal) is the result of minutes of build up before.
DirtyWaterHotDog
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1mo ago
That can't be right ? American sports are known to be stop and go.
Hockey is the only one with a faster cadence. And honestly, their fans have some pretty good chants. (Or at least my school did)
DirtyWaterHotDog
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1mo ago
Yep. I paid 500$ for a group stage game. Nothing to do with status. World cup games in your city are a once in life time opportunity. You pay so you can remember the game.
The NY knicks winning a championship is a less than once in a lifetime opportunity. There are middle class fans who would sell their life savings for it. $20k for courtside seats is frankly under priced. It's pocket change for billionaires.
DirtyWaterHotDog
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1mo ago
DirtyWaterHotDog
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1mo ago
The other thing is it’s the blackification of celebration. Where you need to do things loud and visually to show how much it means to you
Come on. Sports are a worldwide phenomenon, and Americans of all flavors are the infamous for being mild in their celebrations*. In fact, it is kind of sad that Americans have such a corporate relationship with their sport. If you can't be loud and in-tears after an emotional moment for your team, then are you even a real fan ?
*exception - Philadelphia
DirtyWaterHotDog
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2mo ago
Most boring survey responder ever, reporting for duty.
DirtyWaterHotDog
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2mo ago
We can force men to die, but can't even ask women to become mothers
Veteran vs Mother is great like for like comparison. Fairly obvious that mothers get a worse deal.
War sucks. Therefore, social norms and economic incentives are disproportionately generous towards veterans. Doesn't matter if they never saw action. Doesn't matter if the profession has lower mortality rates than logging or fisheries. They're heroes and must be thanked for their service every 5 minutes. They get holidays, movies, medals and awards. Free healthcare, free college, VA checks as pension and discounts at every store.
What do mothers get ? A mother loses between 5-20 years of her life depending on her involvement with the kids. Career women are forced into a ceiling. Pretty women lose their beauty. Complicated pregnancies can come with a lifetime of physical and emotional trauma. We used to treat mothers like heroes. Communities pitched in to help during the difficult years. To raise your children into well-adjusted adults was a source of pride. Not anymore. Now, the incentives have reversed. Media has stopped portraying motherhood in a positive light and perceived standards for parenting have reached impossible levels.
Now the easiest explanation for this double standard is probably just gender bias: we simply have less empathy for men as a whole.
women != mothers. Society has empathy for beautiful young women, not for neurotic mothers who're at their wits end.
It's carrots and sticks. We can talk about sticks that coerce young women into become mothers. But, there need to be more carrots for mothers. Maybe we need stop asking what mothers can do for society, and start asking society what it can do for mothers.
DirtyWaterHotDog
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3mo ago
Traditional society was a 'suck it up, life is hard' system that worked because things sucked equally for both genders. Men got an unfair amount of agency, and in return, women got an unfair amount of protection.
Feminism correctly pointed out that industrialized society should not be beholden to this survivalist system. In practice, they've focused on increasing agency for women, while fiercely guarding the protections of the erstwhile survivalist system.
Men have no competing movement because asking for protection is humiliating in erstwhile male society. Credit where it is due, Suffragettes did not get the credit they deserve for persisting with their non-woman-like behavior in public.
Asking for legal protections because you got cucked is humiliating. Asking for alimony from a wealthier ex-wife is humiliating.
One day, men will have their feminist movement. To men of this era, It will be ugly. It will look like boys becoming twinks. It will look like weak men refusing to take responsibility. It will look like welfare queens. As much as this forum is pro-men, I bet the shape of the eventual pro-men movement will disgust the median man on here.
DirtyWaterHotDog
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3mo ago
Nope. Havent had great biryani in the Bay area. I'm an expert on the matter.
Great udipi food (madhurai idli). Good Pakistani food (zareens). Good experimental Indian (copra). Surprisingly acceptable marathi food (pav bhaji food truck, puranpoli) acceptable indo-chinese (inchins bamboo garden).
There are a few schizo places that are a 8/10 or 2/10 and no in-between. Highly unreliable, but pretty good on a good day. Eg- Aaha in Mission for Telugu/chettinad food. They make the least bad biryani in SF on a good day. Let's just say their sanitation standards are in line with the rest of the mission.
No standout north Indian or mughlai places that I know of.
P.s: while I'm talking about Indian places in the Bay. Fuck Rooh. Bad food and expensive.
How dare you! There were 2 pots of Biryani, and I invited the whole town.
Some ingredient proportions for scale.
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I'll probably do it again this summer. I'll take proper photos this time around.
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Many cultures have a 'brothy meaty rice' dish that needs a ton of effort to get right. When done right, that dish is the best. When done wrong, it is crappy fried rice.
Eg:
- Hainanese Chicken rice
- Paella valenciana
- Biryani
Each dish is labor intensive and needs experience to get right. I've had the privilege of trying some of the best versions of each dish. If your Biryani tastes like crappy fried rice, it is crappy Biryani. Same for Paella and Chicken Rice.
Mutton Biryani no, one of the GREATEST fooD eveR IvEnTeD in the worlD
Amen
I got sick of bad Biryani in the US and [made it myself](link na). No humility for this one. Took a ton of effort, and I bet it was the best Biryani in the city that day.
I now understand why restaurant Biryani sucks. Unless you're a dedicated Biryani shop (which only happens in India), you can't justify the effort it takes to make good Biryani. It took me about 2 days, start to finish.
And then the "Indian" restaurant I ordered from yesterday served it with peas.
@self_made_human , that's a war crime.
there's regional variation. Pakistani biryani is different, so is the Afghan kind. There's like half a dozen other variants from India
This variation is meaningful.
Lucknowi Biryani (Canonical North Indian Biryani) is meant to be aromatic, umami and fragrant. Hyderabadi Biryani (Canonical South Indian Biryani) is meant to be spicy, indulgent and saucier. I made Hyderabadi Biryani, it is my favorite. The other variations involve different types of rice (Kerala), adding potatoes (Bengali), and raisins (Karachi. This is haram).
Unfortunately, Indian restaurants in the west are mostly run by Punjabi & Bangla people. Neither regions are good at Biryani.
DirtyWaterHotDog
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3mo ago
Genuinely appreciate it.
DirtyWaterHotDog
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3mo ago
Hey hey hey !
DirtyWaterHotDog
in an abusive relationship with you lot
3mo ago
@ThomasdelVasto , as @Bartender_Venator said, there is some permanent damage that won't fix itself. The Labrum has a tear, and needs to be repaired. It has started creating a lesion because of the instability it causes.
I'll be doing Yoga and PT after the surgery. I grew up in a household where my grand mom did 3 hours of yoga daily, and the lady is still full of vigor in her mid-80s. Clearly it worked.
My ortho, sports-medicine consult, gpt 5.5 xhigh and 4.7 Opus max are all in agreement on the surgery. It is minimally invasive, so shouldn't be too bad. So surgery it is.
DirtyWaterHotDog
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3mo ago
That's good to hear. I am weighing both options and haven't set a date for the surgery yet. But am leaning surgery. Might get a 2nd opinion just to be safe though.
Claude, the Doctor and Chat GPT all agreed on the condition & surgery after looking at my MRI. The Ortho recommended surgery primarily because I want to keep playing soccer and climbing.
DirtyWaterHotDog
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3mo ago
Embarrassing. I was stretching mid-yawn after a long day at work.
The first one, the traumatic one happened last year when I was a surfing and a wave crashed on top of me. Churned me like I was in a washing machine and spat me out with my shoulder out of place. Bizarre experience.
Pardon my potential homophobia. But this is exactly is why I believe society must treat gay relationships (much like dinks, polycules or harems) as different, rather than treating them as 'straight relationships but with men'. Gay men think all sex is gay sex. By no fault of their own. Straight or gay, all commentary is projection. However, commentary on intimate and emotionally charged matters is especially prone to projection.
This analogy tracks for gay sex because all involved members are male. However for straight relationships, the Shiba Inu is rarely weaker than a female Rottweiler.
In gay relationships, a man can take on either roles in intimate settings. You're in continuous sexual competition. This isn't true for straight relationships. I imagine, gay relationships end up in micro-transactional interactions that don't naturally resolve into a blending of identities. I am not saying gay relationships are any less real. However, they don't have the same obvious entanglements as a conventional straight marriage.
The key difference ofc, is women bear children. One doesn't ask another person to surrender agency, undergo physical transformation, risk pain or risk death for free. Such an ask is even less defensible if it comes at no cost to the man. Therefore, when a man asks a woman to bear his children, he also surrenders himself in return. Take away the physical burden of child birth and coming together as one entity (parents) for child rearing, and you're missing the point of relationships all together. The gay dynamics of surrendering a body temporarily don't matter, because a woman must surrender her body permanently in service of child birth. For that, she doesn't need a physically dominant man to makes her feel safe. Physical safety matters, but emotional safety matters more.
On sex, I'm straight, so I too am projecting. However, men are simple creatures. As a straight man, if I get hard and horny, then finishing is practically guaranteed. Women on the other hand, are mazes. A woman does not have sex with the man in front of her, she has sex with the man in her mind and you give physical shape to it. It means that the narrative power of the story she tells herself and her suspension of disbelief play a bigger role in her eventual satisfaction than the objective reality of the physical man she finds in front of her. If a man has to use physical dominance to dominate, then that's a man that knows nothing about women or sex.
Now ofc, physical size helps. Controlling for everything else, a woman would prefer a taller and larger man to a scrawnier and shorter one. I also acknowledge, that in an era of visual swiping apps for strangers, women and men both tend to value the physical aspects more. But, there in lies in the fallacy of equating male attraction to female attraction. Female attraction isn't nearly as one dimensional as it is for men. Once you're in front of them, straight relationships evolve differently.
80 generations of careful reinforcement is very different from 80 generations of a random process. 80 generations of dingo mutts produces more dingo mutts. You may extend your dog analogy to humans once the smallest race of humans is 13x smaller than the largest.
Again, projection. Gay couples are 2 men who fuck each other. Straight relationships are completely different. Women yelling at husbands is a tale as old as time. If anything, the smaller the woman, the more they shout. The dynamics of whether it is abuse or agreed upon relationship transaction are known only to the couple.
Most recently, the 3 biggest waves of immigration to North America have been Chinese, Indian and Mexicans. All 3 are below average on the violent chad index. So, I'm not sure your point has statistical valence.
But since you asked twice, I will try my hand at it. It's an extension of 'weak men create hard times', or said another way: 'eradication of death diseases creates anti-vaxxers'; or 'peaceful times creates weak immune systems'; or 'I can fix him syndrome'. Western women believe economic-migrants and refugees are the most persecuted people of their respective societies. On the other hand, the people with a propensity for migration are the highest agency (highest volatility) actors, ie. violent men.
I can't improve on this video. So watch this video.
I've had the good fortune of being a relationship advisor to my female friends of various levels of attractiveness and sexual proclivity. (I was a committed man in a long-term & long-distance relationship). Women don't care about big men in the same way. It is one of their fantasies, but it isn't their main fantasy. Mr. Olympia Arnold is not attractive to them. Banderas in Zorro or Cary Elwes in Princess Bride ? That is like crack to them. These are still tall, masculine and handsome men. But, the fantasies they allow for is the real juice. All that being said, being tall and fit are obvious super useful to attracting a woman.
Your instinct is wrong. India has had a history of trans communities going back millennia. Chinese royal courts were chock full of castrated eunuchs. You're projecting an instinct acquired from the modern internet.
Every group sees itself as the most superior people on the planet. White people's post industrial-revolution dominance allows them to sustain that image. Other groups have fewer stories to sustain their narratives, but the impulse to see yourself and by extension, those you look like you as superior is a standard human impulse. Much like how my eyes wander even when I am in love with my partner, it is a natural impulse. To tame it is to be civilized. To feed it is to be barbaric.
Just got to this part. Looks like we're in agreement ? I must say, to tame it does not mean to reject it to reverse it. The liberal leftists are wrong for the same reason that right-wing looks-maxxers are wrong. The tension between the physical animal and cerebral mind need not resolve with the victory of one over the other. The tension can't be resolved, it can only be tamed. The goal of a civilized people is to find achievable peace and harmony between those 2 impulses in tension.
I believe the opposite. Post war America created suburban enclaves built on the explicit and later implicit segregation of the poor away from the rich. It was a deeply unequal society. Highways and suburban boundaries allowed so-called liberals to sustain an illusion of equality for Americans were equal within the confines of their suburban enclaves. Inner cities rotted and became hubs of crime.
New Delhi did the opposite. In his socialist arrogance, Nehru allowed any Indian to move where they wanted. irrespective of your birth, you were allowed to move and erect a slum on the side of the street. Your existence was dignified by affording you the greatest privilege : the ability to occupy the same spaces as the wealthy, and impose yourself on them as they impose themselves on you.
(aside - Much like you, I tend to choose the most provocative framing of obvious points. My girlfriend finds it tedious. Reading this sentence made me understand what it must feel like to be on the receiving end of it. Just yesterday I spend 30 minutes ranting about how most humans just want to be someone's working dog, but they don't want to acknowledge it because it feels dehumanizing. I was correctly called out on the stupid provocativeness of my point. After all, I was just saying that people want a purpose, which sounds much less profound. So....I understand)
To dominate is to influence without consent. There are many ways to influence - love, respect, reliability, narration, familiarity. You aren't saying anything new here. You're merely collapsing the rich experience of being human down to 1 dimension. It isn't wrong, but it is incomplete. That incompleteness is to the detriment of your point, because the meta point has been made by every person who has written a book on society. 'People want to be loved by their community'. Call it dominance, call it influence, call it what you want. It's as simple as that.
I guess I can conclude my counter point by framing it as:
"Any solution where the lying leaders drink their own kool aid is doomed to fail. Leaders must lie to sell necessary policy, but they must insulate themselves from their own propaganda. We are not above nature, but we need not be entirely subservient to it either. Harmony is cliche for a reason."
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